All-Cause Mortality Among Men Whose Cohabiting Partner Has Been Diagnosed with Cancer

Naoki Nakaya; Kumi Saito-Nakaya; Pernille Envold Hansen Bidstrup; Susanne Oksbjerg Dalton; Kirsten Frederiksen; Hanne Würtzen; Marianne Steding-Jessen; Yosuke Uchitomi; Morten Frisch; Christoffer Johansen

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All-Cause Mortality Among Men Whose Cohabiting Partner Has Been Diagnosed with Cancer

Naoki Nakaya, Kumi Saito-Nakaya, Pernille Envold Hansen Bidstrup, Susanne Oksbjerg Dalton, Kirsten Frederiksen, Hanne Würtzen, Marianne Steding-Jessen, Yosuke Uchitomi, Morten Frisch, Christoffer Johansen

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Background: Previous studies suggest that spouses of cancer patients are at increased risk for several chronic diseases. We investigated mortality in relation to cancer morbidity in the stable female partner. Methods: We established a national retrospective cohort study of 1,422,131 men who had lived continuously with the same partner for at least 5 years and used Cox regression analysis to assess the association between experiencing cancer in a cohabiting partner and all-cause mortality. Results: The risk for death was only slightly elevated among men whose partner had cancer than for men whose partner remained free of cancer (hazard ratio = 1.03; 95% confidence interval = 1.01-1.05). Conclusions: Although a cancer diagnosis in a spouse might be associated with considerable distress, our study indicates that the risk for death differs only slightly between men living with a partner with cancer and those living with a partner without cancer.

Original language	English
Journal	Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)
Volume	24
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	96-9
Number of pages	4
ISSN	1044-3983
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/ede.0b013e318276cced
Publication status	Published - Jan 2013

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All-Cause Mortality Among Men Whose Cohabiting Partner Has Been Diagnosed with Cancer

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